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Even the local retail stores are slim in their pickings. I saw the New Millennium Falcon in person. Looks incredible !

Wow, force friday sale starts today and by 9 am this morning (Canada) a ton of the sets are already on backorder and sold out. Doesnt give anyone a chance to get anything. I presume that Lego will honour the free minifig on backorders.

With he upcoming force friday sale, we can get a free scariff trooper with a purchase of 50$ or more. So if someone makes a few separate purchases will we get a figure for each purchase? It mentions in the fine print of one free figure per houshold.

The Clone Wars BP is disappointing in that it makes it hard to build an army of clones when you only get 2 clone troopers.

"Eastern bloc" I say that in jest and also in part of my History/social studio from my teenage years before the fall of the wall ;) The polybag trooper has the dual blue arms, the ones I saw were the regular shore trooper sw787 and the solid tan scarif trooper sw815 which were only in sets. Some seller from Germany has 193. I am truly curious as to how they got so many.

I looked at the feedback ratings and they seemed good, but still I dont trust that due to the limited availability of those particular figures.

I have a question for those with some insight or opinions, I was looking at picking up some individual Scarif Stormtrooper minifigs via bricklink. What I noticed is that certain eastern Bloc country sellers have a large amount of around 120+. That would mean the seller would have had to purchase 60 Scarif lego sets to gain that amount of minifigs. Or is it a case of selling knockoffs ? Or does the seller have special access to getting these minfigs for resale and being legit lego figs.

Contraction Buildable figures sets desire from myself. It would be cool to see them bring out a figure for the resistance/rebel alliance also a geonosis or 501st trooper would be cool to see.

I love the look of the resistance Bomber, so far my favourite set. My least liked is the 75177 First Order Heavy Scout Walker, looks way too crab/spider like and doesn't suit the First order look. It seems more like a Clone wars separatist vehicle design. Disney should have tried harder to keep it in the imperial/FO aesthetic.

I wonder if they will bring out the Geonosis flame troopers with this ?

Battle pack suggestions and hoping for = 501st Clone trooper pack and a Geonosis flame trooper pack with maybe a captain styled from the first Geonosis pack. Also an updated phase I white clone trooper with printed legs battle pack would be great.

I just snagged 26 packs of them, I was hoping to wait out until a bit later but seeing as they are going to be retired I had to act. Missed out of the Kashykk troopers as I just got into collecting just after that. I did not realize there was such a short life span for each set.

Anyone notice some of the new sets are now being retired? such as the IMPERIAL TROOPER BATTLE PACK. Did that set just get release in January, less than 6 months and now it is being retired. Anybody have any insight as to their decision making on that. I always thought Battle packs had a year or so to live.